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Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The object in question was the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of M87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy…

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet’s equator, a new study finds.

Previous research has found that the surface of Mars is rich in ice. Most of these deposits are…

It starts like any other evening. But just as you slump onto the sofa and turn on the television, the front door explodes open and a dozen black-clad police swarm into the room.

You’re muscled to the ground, handcuffed and arrested at gunpoint….

Sharks have all the senses humans have – along with additional senses that enable them to detect electrical signals and vibrations in the water.

Small pores on a shark’s snout, known as ‘ampullae of Lorenzini’, can detect the tiny…

Scientists have squeezed water between two diamonds to create an entirely new form of ice that’s solid at room temperature.

The ice, named ice XXI, forms when water is subjected to extreme pressure to become metastable — a precarious state that…

Astronomers have discovered a colossal bridge of near-invisible gas — spanning around twice the width of the entire Milky Way — connecting a pair of distant dwarf galaxies. The adjoined entities also share a record-breaking galactic tail,…

For all the discoveries we’re making of faraway galaxies, we’re still struggling to fully understand our own galaxy, the Milky Way. For example, researchers have known for decades of an odd concentration of gamma rays near the…

SpaceX has broken its own record for number of rocket launches in a year, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base…

Google Explores Quantum Chaos on Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer Chip

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